New Today -- 24 March 2018

Perspective

The protests against school shootings and the growth of the class struggle

The simultaneous development of a movement among workers and student youth portends a major eruption of social and class conflict in the United States and internationally.

News & Analysis

Bolton's appointment: Another warning of new US wars

Bolton is notorious for his advocacy of illegal wars of aggression, his contempt for the UN and international law, and his belligerent stance towards US rivals such as China and Russia.

Markets fall on trade war fears

Teacher unions seek rotten deal as momentum grows for April 2 statewide walkout in Oklahoma

Ontario Liberal government preparing intervention to end York University strike

European Union backs UK in accusing Russia of nerve agent attack

Russia after the elections: Calls for "reforms" and negotiations with imperialist powers grow louder within the oligarchy

German parliament follows in the tracks of the far-right Alternative for Germany

Record pace of drone strikes mark sharp escalation of US war in Somalia

Police murder in Sacramento, California sparks two days of protests

Mississippi governor signs the nation's most restrictive anti-abortion measure

UK: Eight million hit by welfare cuts

Australian court rejects bid to obtain letters on 1975 "constitutional coup"

Protest Against School Shootings in the US

New pamphlet: The social and political roots of mass shootings in America

Arts Review

Hold Me Down: A day in the life of a single mother in the Bronx

An interview with filmmaker Niclas Gillis and Tanisha Lambright of Hold Me Down

Mehring Books

Mehring Books publishes The Struggle against Imperialism and For Workers' Power in Iran

Socialist Equality Party

The way forward for UK lecturers after the revolt against the University and College Union